This is an analysis report on incarcerated individuals. Specifically, it is data on prison population per county and state.
Some of the variables that I focus on are the total populations
in the counties (total_pop), the prison populations
(total_prison_pop), the years (year), the
different counties (county_name), states
(state), genders and race.
I chose to look at these variables in particular because I wanted to see how the incarceration data compared between different genders and races and over time. I was also curious about the incarceration data looked in Washington.
The number of prison reports based on urbanicity
that came in 2018 in the United States were 3139
Focusing specifically on Washington in 2000, the county that had the highest prison population was King County, and had 4169 individuals.
In the United States, the county that had the highest prison population was Los Angeles County, with 55451 individuals in 2000.
Looking at the different races in between 2000 and 2016 in King County:
Who collected the data?
How was the data collected or generated?
Why was the data collected?
How many observations (rows) are in your data?
How many features (columns) are in the data?
What, if any, ethical questions or questions of power do you need to consider when working with this data?
What are possible limitations or problems with this data? (at least 200 words)
aapi_pop_15to64 there are about 153,811
rows. Out of those about 62,780 are missing. This means that about 41%
of the data in this column are missing, which could make data analysis
much more difficult.total_pop_15to64 which tells us how many people are in
between the ages of 15 and 64. However, it does not give us information
on a specific age. It also does not give us a clear idea on the number
of individuals who are older than 64 or younger than 15.other_race_prison_pop means. The
documentation talks about how it is other or unknown racial categories
but that does not give much information to work on. This also heavily
limits individuals because if they are not Asian or pacific islander,
black, latinx, native american, or white, then they have to be
classified as ‘other’Chart:
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This is a map of all of Washington’s county in the year 2000 and how the prisons total populations compare.
I chose the year 2000 because the data was complete and it was interesting to see data in this year.
This was included to show which counties have the highest number of prisoners in Washington. One pattern visable from the map is that King County and Pierce County have the highest population. This tends to make sense because they have some of the highest populations in Washington.